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Afe Peident
*S7 ICnobe.lying wearily on a
Mbch Is his aew Student Govern.1
a *s erly the end of the
4ter, and Knobel was quietly
z oAdering whether Student
01V1" verment was worth it.
"A whole semester," he said
Wistfully, "Gone. And what have
we doe? What have we meant to
the average student?
-A'We've worked so hard setting
ourselves up, planning for the
future, trying to build confidence.
But does it make any difference?"
For Knobel, a semester as
student body president had flown
by with hundreds of hours of work
and few tangivie results. At the
quiet end of a solemn day, it was
depressing.
In reality, one could point to an
unusual number of Student
Government successes over the
past months. Knobel now sits with
the board of trustees, dorms are
increasingly open, the curriculum
is, under serious study, alcohol
rules are relaxing, ticket
diftribution is gair and efficient,
Student Government is internally
well-organized, Slater is gaining
Letter
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Dear Mr. Wannamaker:
As a imtember of the Carolina
Community and an active member
of the University Union, I wish to
express my concern about the
recent debate over the election of
the Union president. There have
been motions to remove the
election of the Union president
from the student body. I feel that
this would be a tragic mistake.
The idea of the Union is to
provide services for the students.
The best way to achieve this is
through student support and in
terest in the Union. Closing any
avenue of student involvement
would be ridiculous. Since the
student body votes only for one
officer, Union' president,. closing
the election to students would only
alienate them.
An argument in favor of student
body election is that the Union Is
supported by the student activity
fees, and the students should have
a voice in spending it. I feel that
the activity fee Is not the most
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competition, a new student con
stitution is being written.
Whether the students reaseIt or
not, Student Government has
vitally touched their college lives
and has worked itself into a
respected and trusted positionon
campus.
It remains depressing, however.
that students often don't identify
with Student Uovernment. They
shun it as cliquish, weak, wishy
washy, powerless. They seldom
think about it, care little about
staying informed about its ac
tivities.
This remains a major obstacle.
Student Government, while
lacking in real authority and
power, is growing-in power and
prestige. It remains hesitant to
assert itself, however, a little
unsure that it has has the student
support to forcefully assume the
place of spokesman for student
sentiment.
It remains, too, overly involved
in internal wrangling that leaves
most students confused and
disenchanted. For weeks, for
example, charges and coun
tercharges against a cabinet
members have dominated
newspaper reports and student
Government meetings. While
problems go unsolved, Student
Government worries over crass
sident
important issue involved, because
the various Union committees
usually decide how much Union
money is spent.
An argument in favor of
changing the election of the Union
president is that Union members
are better qualified to select a
more able presidefit. This may be
true, but for a person to be can
didate, he must be an active
member of the Union two con
secttive semesters, be a junior,
senior or graduate student, have a
2.25 GPR and meet the approval, of
the Board of Governors. Thus, a
candidate for Union president will
be qualified to serve. Even if they
are not all equally able to fill the
office, they are all qualified.
Since the Union deals with
student involvement, removing the
election from the student body
would slam shut one door leading
to student participation in the
Union,
TONY DANIELS
University Union
Monday. March 3. 197S
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power plays and needless
bickering.
University Union faces similar
problems, Its main activities
recently have centered on how its
officers should be elected, when
the central problem is not how to
elect them, but what they do once
selected.
The word for such maneuvering
is politics, and it Is inexcapable.
The campus is a microcosm of any
community, with political
squabbles and struggles for
prominence.
But the stakes are different here,
and there are problems more
fundamental than internal
squabbling. Student Government
must first establish itself, its
power and its power base before
wasting time with petty feuds. It
must convince the students of its
competence and commitment-not
to inside maneuvering but to
student service.
Student Government has come
far in recent years in gaining
respect and recognition. It now
must turn to its constituency with
determination to publicize its
activities and incorporate all
students. It must turn to the
problems, not the politics, so that
the progress can be recognized and
the problens can be solved.
Under my br
'Uncle
By MIKE KROCHMALNY.
Associate Editor
Book Review. Uncle Strom's
Cabin. (1970, The Liberal Press).
Uncle Strom's Cabin is not the
sequel to Harriet Beecher Stowe's
immortal Uncle Tom's Cabin, it is
the continuation of that novel of the
ends man will attain in the search
for personal gain.
In this episode of the struggle,
the South lies in ruin, devastated
by Northern entrepeneurs and
West Coast politicians.
The sacred religion of the
South- racism- is being held up
to scorn and ridicule and
mongrelization of the master race
is being threatened with the end of
segregated schools.
The first episode finds Uncle
Strom addressing a group of
Yankees, trying to build up
sympathy in the North.
"This heyah seg-rigashun
sichasion is apawling to us
freedom-luvin Suthners. We
don't hold nuthin gainst the Nigra,
lessen he gets outta his place. You
all dun gotten us wrong. We dont
hate nobody. We just want to go
back to our qui-ett ways of livin,
drinkin jew-lips and lettin the
Nigra do the work he was put on
thurth to do. Why, ifn God didnt
want the Nigra to pick cotun, he
wouldnt of given him hands."
(The Yankee audience manages
to contain their applause.)
"Furthamore, we Suthners got
as much right to have our little
idio-sincrusies as anyone else. We
helped ee-lect the prez-i-dunt, so
why cant we do whut we want to
down South? "
(The Yankee audience shows its
approval of Uncle Strom's speech
in normal Yankee fashion - a hail
of marshmellows.)
Now the scene shifts back to the
plantation where the cruel task
master (and local politico) Simon
McNair is having his own troubles
with the carpetbaggers and
scalawags.
"You all just don't realize the
pain I bear to keep this position of
trust. I suffer because I know what
I'm doing is best for you if I were to
bow to some less competent man,
why you people might just be
plowed under in the oppression
that would follow. I am your
liberty."
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Di
eath
Strom s
(At which point the whole slave
population tries to imagine what it
would be like to live under real
oppression.)
"My friends, and you are my
friends, I am saddened by your
lack of confidence. Someday I will
be rewarded, but it will not be
soon. 'You fail to appreciate the
hardship I go through for you."
The scene shifts back to the
North, where Uncle Strom is again
pleading the case of the South with
dull redundancy.
"Fellow A-mair-i-cuns, dont
judge us by the standerds of a
Commy-nist, yeller Sue-preme
CoArt. Never have o pany well
in-tenchuned and peace-luvvin
fIA
O
E -? -
THE NEN
cover Amei
Cabin'
people been so mis represented.
We dont want hatrid or ignerants.
we jest want whut is prawmissed
to evry A-mair-i-sun, the right to
hold whumever he wishes in bond
idge. You got the Poal-ax, the
Itallyuns and the jewce, just let us
have our Nigras."
The book is quite repetitive, and
the author died of hardening of the
arteries before its completion, yet
the part already written shows a
definite sense of humor and a
distorted code of values. In
teresting reading for those with
strong stomachs.
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The Lettermen are definitely
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Others share my opinion, I'm told.
We'd like some "hard rock,"
Is that stich a shock?
So come on, committee - got bold!I
- ELLA DAVIES
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Dar Mr. Wannamaker:
In this, the wa'e of a tragic loss
to the N.C. State Wolfpack in the
Atlantic Coast Conference
basketball tournament, I would
like to express my thanks to the
players of our great team, the
tremendous coaching staff, and
especially Mr. Frank McGuire..
Throughout this past season the
Gamecocks have thrilled over a
quarter of a million people with
their excellent basketball ability. I
feel that our team has displayed
thoughout the season the deter
mination, desire, and sport
smanship in the highest ideals of
this great University. I for one am
proud to be a member of the school
which was represented by these
fine people.
One cannot praise this team
enough. I believe that I speak for
the student body when I say, "in
our eyes this team is still a
champion." I am only sorry that
such a great season had to end so
tragically; however, I still look
forward to next year when thp
'Cocks will be back and stronger
than ever.
Thank you again, Mr. McGuire
and Gamecocks, for a wonderful
season of basketball.
CHRISTOPHER G. GRIFFITH
Hope where
there had
been none
Dear Mr. Wannamaker:
Have you any comprehension of
what John Roche and the rest of
the basketball team have meant to
the state of South Carolina?
Do you know what the team has
'done for this University-this
state?
No doubt they've been much too
busy doing the thing that is theirs
- playing basketball in a way that
set everyone at USC and the state
of South Carolina on.fire,
Do you know what the team has
given us? Hope where there have
been apologies. Confidence where
the meaning of the word had been
forgotten and pride in a University
and a state that seemed to be
doomed to being just a bit better
than Mississippi.
The team assumed a large and
formidable responsibility on their
sturdy shoulders without realizing im'.
exactly perhaps the impact of the
part the talent God gave them
might play in the building of an
image of a state fragil yet strong
intangable hopes perhaps put into
your human and responsive'hands
building higher and higher the
daring grasp of a state feeling
itself always second best.
The agony the team felt on
marching into combat with NC.
State was multiplied many times
over by all of us who looked to you
for the win all of us yearned for-not
just for USC but for the purging of
a state that has too often been in
the purgatory of competition-be it
in sports education-politics of our'
state. It matters not-for some
dumb-reason, born in history S.C.
is put down.
The team has helped raise us up
our beautiful Gamecock team has
helped the populace hold their
heads high in a respect they've
never had the privilege of feeling
before.
For this and many other things
intangible and otherwise we thank
the team from the depth of our
hearts.
MRS. THOMAS F. JONES
SHFRE